17-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNS IN POOL Edwin DeGruy, Jr., 17, 2019 Lombard, drowned in a New Orleans Recreation Department swimming pool early Friday after he and two friends slipped through a hole in a fence to reach it. The pool is at the Pradat Playground, Dreux Avenue and Pecan Street. The friends saw DeGruy on the bottom of the pool and summoned his uncle. Efforts to revive the youth failed. (died June 18, 1976) New Orleans Public Library Times Picayune Newspaper June 18, 1976, p2, c6 Helen Kendrick